tiptoe

He is betting the Western alliance will be healthier if America’s allies candidly air their disagreements with the president, rather than tiptoe around him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Put all together, investors may remain understandably uneasy about the topic, even if they start to tiptoe back into oversold areas.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Barabak: You’re having me tiptoe uncomfortably close to the Make A Prediction Zone, which I assiduously avoid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026

We tiptoe around finances because we’ve been programmed by society to link our personal value to our financial status.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

There’s an area for the show part, where the judging happens, where you pay money and might win ribbons, and that’s very quiet and you feel like you should tiptoe and whisper.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

On that overcast morning with the F-150, Hummel stood on his tiptoes and reached both arms overhead into the tight crevices under the pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Behind them, a slim figure reaches up on tiptoes, but the 1-month pad is still out of her reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

"The team approached this work almost on their tiptoes," he tells me.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

Mr. Williams’s class emerged out the back door, and Hazel stood on her tiptoes scanning the faces.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

I slipped on waterproof shoes, grabbed a pair of shears and, still in my pajamas, tiptoed down the grand staircase of the château and out onto the dewy grass of the garden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

But having tiptoed cautiously throughout its first year in office, the question is whether this government can convince those potential investors that the economic vision is real?

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025

The leaders tiptoed around thorny regional security issues like Taiwan and North Korea.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2024

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tiptoed less than 0.1% lower to 38,892.80, while the Nasdaq composite inched 5 points higher to 16,253.96.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

I tiptoed into the kitchen and grabbed two slices of cold pizza from the refrigerator.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Any hope Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation has been obliterated.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Be back in a minute,” Peggy Jo told her mother, tiptoeing past her room.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025

Instead, the strategic calculation appears to have been that you can fold some of the groypers back into mainstream conservativism, but only by tiptoeing around the flaws of their putative leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Nevertheless, Claudia was tiptoeing into the grown-up world.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg